US execution livestream, ICC sanctions, ICE defends NYC shooting (Updated)

Hi, I'm Indy Barrow's in London. And I'm Christopher Walgesper in Chicago. It's Friday, October 9th, today. The U.S. sanctions the International Criminal Court after a former ICC judge wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The U.S. will live stream an execution for the first time in history. The UAE says the fly-to-buy co-pilot planned a suicide attack on Tel Aviv's airport. And ICE officials defend the shooting of a man in New York City. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes seven days a week. For the first time in American history, the U.S. government will live stream an execution. Former Army psychiatrist, Nidal Hassan, was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009. He is scheduled to die by firing squad on December 3rd at the same Texas base where he opened fire. This would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961. And the first by firing squad since World War II. No brainer. Execution by firing squad. Many major betrays his country, radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course we're going to do it at Fort Hood and do it on a Thursday, we're going to do it at 1 o'clock, which is when he did it. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth, saying the time and date chosen to deliberately merit the original attack. He confirmed it will be live streamed via X. No legal execution has ever been televised in U.S. and no other country is known to have done it. Tech executions have become rare worldwide, and countries that have conducted them in recent years include Iran and Taliban-run Afghanistan. President Donald Trump approved the execution on Hegseth's recommendation. The decision comes amid heightened debate in the U.S. over the death penalty, following the botched lethal injection of Christopher Pike last week. The Trump administration has imposed sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court, threatening to punish any company that does business with the institution. The move could cripple the ICC, isolating it from financial institutions and tech companies and key to its operation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. will never allow the ICC to prosecute Americans and has warned allies who rely on U.S. defense to quote "rain in" the court. The move comes just hours after Navi-Palai, a former ICC judge won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. She presided over groundbreaking cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that established rape and sexual violence as official acts of genocide. She also chaired the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and made global headlines in 2025 when the Commission released its landmark report concluding that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. The ICC is backed by 125 countries, including all EU members and most NATO allies. The co-pilot who attacked the captain of a fly-to-bye aircraft last week planned to seize the plane and crash it into a terminal at Israel's Ben-Gurian airport. That's according to the UAE Attorney General. Investigators think of the plan was inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. The Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight was in Saudi airspace when the co-pilot attacked the captain with a crash axe. He was thwarted by the pilot, but the incident caused the airliner to plunge nearly 5,000 meters in 30 seconds before he was overwhelmed by passengers. The suspect was transferred to the UAE and fly-to-bys home country. A pair of new Reuters-Ipsos polls point to potential problems for Republicans heading into November. The first finds a big enthusiasm gap. Nearly half of voters who backed Kamala Harris in 2024 say they're very enthusiastic about voting in the midterms. Among Trump voters, that number drops to 30%. The poll also shows some softening in Republican support among men, a key group in Trump's 2024 victory. A separate Reuters-Ipsos poll finds frustration over the cost of living is cutting across party lines. Two-thirds of Americans say prices are rising faster than their paychecks, and 78% say the White House deserves at least some blame for higher costs. Under the President Trump, he made it very clear he was going to restore law and order in our cities and our towns and in our states. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin, defending federal agents who shot and wounded a New York City man in his car on Thursday. Mullin says Oscar Belgaal, a Dominican who is in the country illegally, defied orders and endangered officers by using his car as a weapon. A young child believed to be his son was in the back seat at the time. We weren't aware the child was in the car, I can tell you that. But you know who was? Oscar. Oscar knew he had a child in his car. Oscar chose to accelerate at a high rate of speed and ram two different vehicles as he was as appears to be going towards officers. Officials say Belgaal suffered a superficial wound to his neck and is now being held in a detention facility outside New York State. The shooting has sparked protests in the city overnight. Mayor Zoran Mamdani says he personally called President Donald Trump and the Homeland Security Secretary to try and negotiate his release, but he says he was unsuccessful. New immigration agents have shot at least 21 people since Trump returned to office, seven of them fatally. President Trump is escalating his effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The White House has established a committee to investigate claims that Cook made false statements on mortgage documents. A closed-door hearing is scheduled for November 5, two days after the midterm elections. Police lawyers say that if the process is objective, it will show she did not commit mortgage fraud and there is no legal basis to fire her. A Supreme Court ruling earlier this year said a president cannot remove a Fed governor without adequate cause and a clear process. The move is another test of the Fed's independence and comes as Trump has repeatedly called for the Central Bank to cut interest rates. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is criticizing the United States, saying Washington isn't doing enough to help Ukraine defend itself. His comments come after another wave of attacks on Kiev and a deadly strike in the town of Praluky. Ukrainian negotiators are set to meet with Jared Kushner and Steve Wickoff in Miami over the weekend. European officials are expected to join as well. But while leaders debate support and strategy, many Ukrainians are just trying to survive. In the southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky, dozens of burned-out cars lie strewn along a main road. The route leads out of the Russian occupied town and deeper into Russian controlled territory. Residents still there are making hours long journeys on foot and by bicycle along mine-scattered roads to reach food and water. Ukrainians have a name for it, the road of death. 72-year-old Larissa fled Oleshky shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. She says her husband is still there, surviving on dwindling rations, but she's forbidden him from taking the road, calling it Russian roulette. Reuters wasn't able to independently verify her account, but her description matches those of other witnesses, officials and aid workers familiar with the humanitarian crisis in Oleshky. Russia has acknowledged serious shortages of food and medical supplies in Oleshky and says its military is working to address them. Moscow blamed Ukraine, saying its blocking supplies from reaching the town. Hurricane Isseis is bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast, the first Atlantic hurricane of 2026. The storm could strengthen to a category 3 hurricane by the time it makes landfall, late Friday or early Saturday, with sustained winds reaching 110 miles an hour. The storm has already forced mandatory evacuations in parts of Florida and emergency declarations in Alabama and Mississippi, with storm surges up to seven feet and heavy rainfall expected. It's also severely disrupted Gulf oil and gas operations, nearly two-thirds of the region's oil production has been paused, along with more than half of its natural gas output. It's been a quiet start to hurricane season in the Atlantic, thanks to a strong El Nino pattern that's suppressed storm development. This is the latest the latest date for the first hurricane in the region since 1905. For more on any of the stories from today, as well as more analysis and news shaping our world, check out Reuters.com or the Reuters app. There's a link in the description to download it and start getting pure news straight from the source. 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